Zenland - Eric Johnson Cover (with S-GEAR Presets)

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Original music by Eric Johnson,from the album 'Live and beyond'.

This superb cover version of Eric Johnson's 'Zenland' was produced by S-GEAR user David Hardy. All guitars were recorded with S-GEAR.

Find out more about the production and download the S-GEAR presets...

GUITAR:

Fender Stratocaster with DiMarzio HS-2 pickup in the bridge position (wired for single coil) and Fender Texas Specials in the neck and middle positions; one of the tone knobs is wired to the bridge pickup.

SIGNAL CHAIN:

S-GEAR PRESETS DOWNLOAD:

Download and unzip the file. Open the S-GEAR presets browser, then drag and drop the preset .sfx files to empty preset slots.

PRODUCTION NOTES:

After importing "Zenland" from the "Alien Love Child" album to use as a reference into Cubase, then programming the drum and bass parts, I worked with the various tones throughout the track by loading an instance of the S-Gear plugin and then would A/B my settings to what I was hearing from both the monitors and headphones.

One interesting thing I discovered was by splitting the output of my strat and sending one output direct to my DAW and the other to my Fender Pro Junior turned full up, that by having the Strat's pickup interact with the amp it added those same characteristics to the direct signal being recorded to my DAW.When I then processed that recorded direct signal with S-Gear, it added that magic mojo that you can hear between 1min 12 sec to 1min 20sec. There's a distinct GROWL and FEEDBACK that I'm not sure I could have achieved otherwise. I only used this technique for that short 8 second segment, so everything else is pure S-gear.....Strat plugged into the interface with with a little bit of the Eventide H910 plugin. To be clear, the Fender Pro Junior was not mic'd or recorded.